How long have you been holding those words in your head, hoping to use them?

Moral laws are set as a curb and restraint to these exorbitant desires, which they cannot be but by rewards and punishments, that will over-balance the satisfaction any one shall propose to himself in the breach of the law.

Untruth being unacceptable to the mind of man, there is no other defence left for absurdity but obscurity.

'Tis true that governments cannot be supported without great charge, and it is fit everyone who enjoys a share of protection should pay out of his estate his proportion of the maintenance of it.

It is practice alone that brings the powers of the mind, as well as those of the body, to their perfection.

New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not already common.

Every man has a property in his own person. This nobody has a right to, but himself.